Three weeks down on this second half of term and I am starting to flag. The girls have done incredibly well at not getting sick so far this term, which is no mean feat, but I could begin to feel some throaty soreness as the calendar kicked over toward mid-November. Monday miles were, as ever,… Read More Running for the hell of it

A couple of weeks ago a nice chap* named Tom emailed me to tell me a little about his company and see if I might be interested in sharing it on the blog. Ride Skincare is a local company (to me at least, maybe not to you, dear reader) based in Godalming, Surrey, of whom… Read More Putting my money where it matters

I should have known, as soon as I read those fearful words, that this next phase of my training was likely to involve some suffering. I remain plagued by an ongoing foot issue that seems to not bother me when running, by and large, but it hurts quite a bit when walking / daily life,… Read More Let’s get some speed in those legs

So what now to fill the void left by endless hours of marathon training? Since starting a training plan in late June / early July 2015, I have now run four marathons in the past 11 months; in the two years (and one day) since I had surgery on my knee I have tripled my… Read More The end of my marathon career

Last summer I began training for the Frankfurt marathon on just about the very first day of the summer holidays. Aside from a slight hiccup right at the very beginning of the training plan, everything went really well. In fairness I didn’t hit every single target, and sometimes I felt bad about that. Although the… Read More T-minus 1 week